Detainee comes to clinic with severe abdominal pain

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A detainee comes to the clinic with severe abdominal pain. The physician orders a catheter urine specimen and an IV insertion. The female medic attempts to communicate these orders to the patient, but the patient doesn't understand and refuses the procedures. He becomes angry with the medic. She calls for the interpreter to translate, but he is busy. What should she do? She restraints the patient and places the catheter and IV The female medic goes to find a male medic to do the catheterization because she assumes the refusal is based upon her gender She waits for the interpreter and finds out that the patient didn't understand what she was going to do with the tube and why she was attempting to lift his gown She ignores the physician's order and hopes the next shift will take care of it.

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